Los Angeles – As the fate of the Menandage brothers is prevented for another month, a legal analyst and a trial lawyer say their freedom is also a discussion, thanks to a new law signed by Govin Newsome.
Roger Bonkdar, a California lawyer, shared with Fox News Digital that after nearly 35 years, Eric and Lile Mendez were given a new hope to leave the jail behind thanks to the passage of Los Angeles County George Gescon and AB600.
The law allows individuals who remain disorganized under the sentences under the influence of joy, less flexible laws, to a petition to review their sentences, so they can benefit from more recent legislative reforms focusing on rehabilitation according to the lesson of the law.
“What is happening that former DA Gskon, notorious for some policies and practices, which he established in La County, which was a resolution with the court with a several credit with violent crime and theft blast in LA, a proposal with the court that the menndez brothers re -sentenced,” Bowkdar said.
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Lyl, Left, and Eric Menandez sit in the Beverly Hills Municipal Court during a hearing, on 26 November 1990 with defense counsel Leslie Abramson. (AP Photo/Nick UT)
Bonkadar said Gaskon argued that Menandez Bhai “allegedly no longer a threat to the community and he has served his debt to the society,” because he was his age at the time of his punishment and punishment.
“Gaskon also clearly created a point of his defense, which did not fly into the test, about his alleged sexual abuse at the hands of his now-the-death father. Therefore, what is happening now, what is happening now that the current DA has demanded to leave the court to withdraw the court or to withdraw the speed of Gskon as he is worthy of honorarium or saying again.
Banokdar said that the hearing makes the hearing even more interesting that the powers of the judge are “very wide” and “he” can re -sentence him on a crime, for which he was not convicted. “
“The judge can also decorate them, which is called a low -involved crime. This means that a crime that is part of the acts, or otherwise, is involved, the allegations in which they went for testing, including the second degree killing, even voluntary mangilator can be involved, under law. Under law. Of course, the judge has worked hard to go very badly.
Menandez brothers and his supporters are insisting on hearing a displeasure, saying that the brothers were convicted of life in jail in 1996, for the murder of their two parents, Jose and Kitty Menandage, they have Beverly Hills Home in 1989.
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Lile and Eric Menandez are seen as young men with their Magshots. Brother is currently serving life sentence for the killings of his parents, Jose and Mary Lewis “Kitty” Menandez in 1996. (Ronald L. Sobble/Los Angeles Times through Getty Image)
Their first test ended in a wrong way when the gamblers did not agree on their fate. After a second test in the mid -1990s, about some of his evidence Alleged sexual exploitation It was excluded, the gamblers agreed with the prosecutors that their purpose was greed.
If the judge decides to offend the Menandez brothers, it will be to the state parole board to consider their release.
Because they were under 26 years of age at the time of murders, under the current California Act, the new sentence of 50 years for life will immediately make them eligible for parole hearing.
Bonkadar said, “If it goes completely on their way, they can be given parole and can be released. They can be sentenced.” “And the reason for this is that there have been some changes in the California law Some of those who allow criminals, if they were quite young at that time, were convicted for re -sending them under these compassionate release rules, who say, for example, for example, if you were under 26 years of age in the commission’s time, or if you had some other mitigation conditions, you are eligible to apply for relief. ,
Banokdar said that what is unique here is that Gaskon has filed positively for relief, and that the judge rejected the current Da Nathan Hocman’s attempt to pull back the speed of Gaskon.
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“This is very important because under the new law, it states that where the government, where the prosecutor moves forward for release, he really motivates the defendant, the convict for the benefit of an estimate, meaning that the person who is demanding to reduce the punishment is in a particularly detained, as if he should accept the preliminary proposal.
Banokdar said that this entire hearing and saga separates the saga from others that menndez Brothers “is definitely one leg up on your average criminal defendant.”
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Deputy District Attorney Habib Balian addressed the court in front of a picture of the Mendez family, which was displayed on a screen in Superior Court on Van Nuies, California, Friday, Friday, 11 April 2025. (Bill Rawbles)
Banokdar said about his tests in the 90s, “First, he had the resources to go into it. He hired the top flight lawyers. He threw everything in the kitchen sink in this test.” “They walked at a distance and even testified in their criminal trials. So it is not surprising that a defendant who had a level of resources and can be put in an attempt at the level that can now demand relief.”
Bonkadar said that the biggest thing, however, it is that Gaskon has filed a positive proposal.
“It is argued that these defendants had demanded a pardon or a proposal on the basis of change in law. The fact that the former District Attorney, Gaskon, had filed independently and gives them a leg positively one leg to really go to hearing. Most other defendants will not benefit.”
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Hochman has strongly opposed resentment by Gescon, but he said that he would consider that the two brothers “honestly and unequally accept, for the first time in more than 30 years, for the first time in more than 30 years, their entire series of criminal activity and all lies that they have told about it.”
He said in a previous statement that the brothers have chosen for laughter as stubbornly in more than 30 years of lies, deception, and refusal, “and it is for the court whether” a lack of acceptance of responsibility for their fatal tasks “is enough to decide whether Menandez brothers have an unfair risk for the community.
Bonkadar said, in his opinion and approach, that “before taking his decision in May, the judge are” aggressive factor, who can consider the judge and perhaps “.
Banokdar said, “Pre -made murder is a very serious and clearly from his nature, violent crime. And especially, if you have found the mental ability to process the idea of killing both your parents in cold blood, it’s a serious public safety concern,” said Bocardar. “The argument on the other side is that at some point, time heals wounds and people can be rehabilitated and everyone is worthy of redemption. This is the argument that will be done by the Menandage brothers. While some examples this may be true, I think I think Menandage is to be seen for boys.”
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Menandez Brothers, Left, and La Dr. Nathan Hocman, Wright. (Getty image)
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The brothers’ Attorney, Mark Geragos, filed a repetition proposal against Hochman after the judgment of Judge Michael Jessic to resume his hearing by May. A recurrence speed requests that due to a possible conflict of personal interest or prejudice, takes away from a case that prevents them from impartially operating.
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There was also an allegation of violation of a Marxi law, which protects the families of the victims, when the prosecutors showed graphic crime scenes of the murder, which led to an elderly aunt’s hospital hospitalized, and something that family members claimed that they had never seen in 35 years.
Hochman’s office said the prosecutors did not cause a “crisis or pain” for those in the presence at the hearing.
The Hochman’s office wrote in the previous statement shared with Fox News Digital, “To the extent that the photographic depiction of this conduct harasses any Menandage family members present in the court, we apologize for prior warnings that conduct will be described not only in words but also through a crime visual photo.”
The judge rejected the request of the Menandage team for the DA to show photos of the crime, but asked both sides to provide warnings.
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“This is extremely rare … where the victims are also supporting the defendants,” Jessic said. “I did not even think about it when the picture had increased.”
“It was a fierce murder,” he continued. “If someone is uncomfortable, perhaps they should not be here.”
Lile and Eric Menandez will return to court on 9 May as it is a decision whether they will be hung in the remaining amount.
They are already going to appear before the parole board on 13 June, which is part of the CRA report ordered by Newsom, considering the Clemensey request of the brothers – a separate potential path out of jail.
Fox News arrived at Newsom’s office for digital comment.
Fox News Digital’s Sara Rampf-Wit and Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.
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